Finance Contracts in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 3 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 5,543 7,134 11,225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 22.77% 19.17% 22.24%
As % of the General category 35.57% 32.81% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,716 4,954 8,110
10th Percentile £355 £359 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -1.72% +4.35%
75th Percentile £719 £725 £725
90th Percentile £838 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £570 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.87% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 226 97
10th Percentile £18.16 £12.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.27 £15.17 £21.24
Median hourly rate £39.06 £27.00 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +44.65% -3.50% -18.04%
75th Percentile £65.75 £38.12 £49.00
90th Percentile £78.56 £53.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.00 £30.63
% change year-on-year +37.24% -11.84% -12.49%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,582 21,742 29,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.02% 58.41% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,120 14,023 20,959
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 674 1,785 974
10th Percentile £14.01 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.27 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%
75th Percentile £58.34 £51.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Finance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Finance in England.

Daily rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Finance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 3,717 £625 +4.08% 5,196
North of England +1 519 £475 -5.00% 1,088
South East +1 418 £517 +1.65% 789
Midlands -1 312 £500 -9.09% 663
South West +6 279 £500 -12.28% 509
North West 0 266 £464 -7.25% 678
Yorkshire +2 215 £495 -1.00% 298
West Midlands -3 201 £525 -4.55% 426
East of England -2 124 £550 +4.76% 281
East Midlands +7 101 £447 -23.10% 228
North East +11 38 £470 -6.00% 117
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 172 (3.10%) Confluence
2 145 (2.62%) SharePoint
3 127 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 125 (2.26%) Apache
5 103 (1.86%) Apache Spark
6 61 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 30 (0.54%) SAS
8 14 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 12 (0.22%) CMS
9 12 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
10 10 (0.18%) CICS
10 10 (0.18%) nginx
10 10 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 9 (0.16%) JBoss
12 8 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.13%) MQSeries
14 6 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.11%) Skype for Business
15 4 (0.072%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 253 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 140 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 99 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 55 (0.99%) MS Visio
6 29 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
8 18 (0.32%) Sketch
9 13 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 12 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 10 (0.18%) Chatbot
12 9 (0.16%) InVision
12 9 (0.16%) Trello
13 5 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
13 5 (0.090%) Photoshop
14 4 (0.072%) AutoCAD
14 4 (0.072%) SketchUp
15 3 (0.054%) Acrobat
16 2 (0.036%) Open Workbench
16 2 (0.036%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 203 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 49 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 48 (0.87%) SAP FI
4 45 (0.81%) SAP CO
5 42 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
6 41 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
7 37 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
7 37 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
8 33 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
9 32 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
10 29 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
11 26 (0.47%) Endur
12 24 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
12 24 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
13 23 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
14 17 (0.31%) Kondor
14 17 (0.31%) SAP PS
14 17 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
14 17 (0.31%) Workday HCM
15 15 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 771 (13.91%) Azure
2 664 (11.98%) AWS
3 249 (4.49%) GCP
4 234 (4.22%) Power Platform
5 187 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 154 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 151 (2.72%) SaaS
8 134 (2.42%) dbt
9 113 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 107 (1.93%) Entra ID
11 94 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (1.66%) Serverless
13 88 (1.59%) GitHub
14 82 (1.48%) OCI
15 71 (1.28%) OpenShift
16 64 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
18 60 (1.08%) Amazon S3
19 57 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
20 52 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 158 (2.85%) Firewall
2 89 (1.61%) Network Security
3 73 (1.32%) DNS
4 58 (1.05%) VPN
5 54 (0.97%) WAN
6 47 (0.85%) LAN
7 41 (0.74%) DHCP
8 36 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (0.54%) BGP
10 25 (0.45%) Wireless
11 24 (0.43%) OSPF
12 21 (0.38%) TCP/IP
13 19 (0.34%) HTTP
13 19 (0.34%) Internet
14 18 (0.32%) SAN
15 16 (0.29%) MPLS
15 16 (0.29%) Multicast
15 16 (0.29%) SSL
16 14 (0.25%) VLAN
16 14 (0.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (3.48%) Power BI
2 180 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 169 (3.05%) Data Lake
4 143 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 133 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 115 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
6 115 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 111 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 110 (1.98%) Dremio
9 99 (1.79%) Apache Arrow
10 81 (1.46%) Big Data
11 80 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 80 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
12 78 (1.41%) Tableau
13 76 (1.37%) NoSQL
14 68 (1.23%) Apache Ignite
14 68 (1.23%) MongoDB
15 53 (0.96%) Hadoop
16 44 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
17 39 (0.70%) DB2
Development Applications
1 293 (5.29%) JIRA
2 159 (2.87%) Git
3 158 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 67 (1.21%) GitLab
5 51 (0.92%) JUnit
6 45 (0.81%) Artifactory
7 39 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 37 (0.67%) Gradle
9 31 (0.56%) Selenium
10 28 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 26 (0.47%) Mockito
12 25 (0.45%) Maven
12 25 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
13 24 (0.43%) Bitbucket
13 24 (0.43%) Cucumber
14 23 (0.41%) Postman
14 23 (0.41%) Subversion
15 21 (0.38%) JMeter
15 21 (0.38%) Liquibase
16 20 (0.36%) ERwin
General
1 1,695 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 1,214 (21.90%) Banking
3 775 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 550 (9.92%) Front Office
5 347 (6.26%) Marketing
5 347 (6.26%) Public Sector
6 308 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 276 (4.98%) Manufacturing
8 240 (4.33%) Telecoms
9 225 (4.06%) Financial Institution
10 215 (3.88%) Legal
11 180 (3.25%) Electronics
12 164 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 157 (2.83%) Retail
14 121 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
15 110 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 97 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
17 87 (1.57%) Law
18 85 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 73 (1.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 831 (14.99%) Analyst
2 817 (14.74%) Developer
3 579 (10.45%) Senior
4 443 (7.99%) Project Manager
5 416 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 398 (7.18%) Architect
7 391 (7.05%) Lead
8 384 (6.93%) Consultant
9 204 (3.68%) Software Engineer
10 158 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
11 151 (2.72%) Data Engineer
12 131 (2.36%) Python Engineer
13 126 (2.27%) Senior Developer
14 124 (2.24%) Financial Analyst
14 124 (2.24%) Programme Manager
15 122 (2.20%) Java Developer
15 122 (2.20%) Python Developer
16 121 (2.18%) C# Developer
17 118 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
18 117 (2.11%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (3.72%) React
2 190 (3.43%) .NET
3 175 (3.16%) Kafka
4 122 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 106 (1.91%) PySpark
6 105 (1.89%) Pandas
7 100 (1.80%) REST
7 100 (1.80%) Spring
8 97 (1.75%) NumPy
9 95 (1.71%) Node.js
10 86 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
11 83 (1.50%) CSS
11 83 (1.50%) Web Services
12 78 (1.41%) SciPy
13 77 (1.39%) Redux
14 74 (1.34%) RESTful
15 71 (1.28%) HTML
16 69 (1.24%) Spring Boot
17 61 (1.10%) Middleware
18 57 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 341 (6.15%) Fixed Income
2 323 (5.83%) Derivative
3 317 (5.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 262 (4.73%) Hedge funds
5 251 (4.53%) Equities
6 198 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 142 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 129 (2.33%) Data Centre
9 127 (2.29%) Management Information System
10 86 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
11 82 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
12 71 (1.28%) Algorithms
13 69 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 69 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 67 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 55 (0.99%) Public Cloud
16 52 (0.94%) Cloud Native
16 52 (0.94%) Market Risk
17 49 (0.88%) Life Science
18 48 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 385 (6.95%) Windows
2 267 (4.82%) Linux
3 100 (1.80%) Unix
4 79 (1.43%) Windows Server
5 75 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 46 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 44 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (0.43%) Android
9 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 10 (0.18%) Solaris
11 9 (0.16%) zOS
12 8 (0.14%) AIX
12 8 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 7 (0.13%) CentOS
14 6 (0.11%) VMS
15 5 (0.090%) Windows 7
16 4 (0.072%) HPUX
16 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.054%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,396 (25.18%) Agile
2 958 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
3 757 (13.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 692 (12.48%) Project Management
5 689 (12.43%) Migration
6 585 (10.55%) Analytics
7 529 (9.54%) DevOps
8 462 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
9 457 (8.24%) CI/CD
10 438 (7.90%) Risk Management
11 401 (7.23%) Change Management
12 388 (7.00%) Asset Management
13 385 (6.95%) Software Engineering
14 367 (6.62%) Roadmaps
15 333 (6.01%) Decision-Making
16 321 (5.79%) Project Delivery
17 319 (5.76%) Investment Management
18 283 (5.11%) Programme Management
19 270 (4.87%) Continuous Improvement
20 266 (4.80%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 873 (15.75%) Python
2 806 (14.54%) SQL
3 496 (8.95%) Java
4 304 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 269 (4.85%) C#
6 209 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 169 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 127 (2.29%) C++
8 127 (2.29%) PL/SQL
9 78 (1.41%) Bash
10 52 (0.94%) Shell Script
11 49 (0.88%) Go
12 44 (0.79%) VBA
13 43 (0.78%) Scala
14 38 (0.69%) VB
15 36 (0.65%) R
16 28 (0.51%) Perl
17 27 (0.49%) C
18 23 (0.41%) Bicep
18 23 (0.41%) RPG
Qualifications
1 529 (9.54%) Degree
2 386 (6.96%) Security Cleared
3 299 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 107 (1.93%) PMI Certification
5 100 (1.80%) PMP
6 97 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 67 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 65 (1.17%) CISSP
10 47 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (0.74%) ACCA
12 38 (0.69%) CIMA
13 33 (0.60%) CISM
14 30 (0.54%) Azure Certification
15 29 (0.52%) CCNP
16 26 (0.47%) Dell Certification
17 25 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
18 24 (0.43%) AWS Certification
19 23 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
20 22 (0.40%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (3.34%) QA
2 178 (3.21%) PMO
3 151 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 99 (1.79%) GDPR
5 82 (1.48%) SLA
6 75 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 63 (1.14%) MiFID
7 63 (1.14%) NIST
8 59 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 52 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 35 (0.63%) IFRS
11 34 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 31 (0.56%) GRC
13 20 (0.36%) EMIR
14 18 (0.32%) Basel III
15 16 (0.29%) SEPA
16 13 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.23%) IFRS 9
17 12 (0.22%) PSD2
18 11 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 229 (4.13%) Docker
2 200 (3.61%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.23%) vSphere
6 12 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.090%) Firmware
9 5 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.072%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.072%) HDFS
10 4 (0.072%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.072%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.072%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.054%) NFS
11 3 (0.054%) RACF
11 3 (0.054%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 272 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 222 (4.01%) Terraform
3 144 (2.60%) Ansible
4 63 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 50 (0.90%) SCCM
6 32 (0.58%) Grafana
7 25 (0.45%) Puppet
8 20 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 17 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 13 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.14%) CASB
11 8 (0.14%) Control-M
11 8 (0.14%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.14%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.14%) Rundeck
12 7 (0.13%) Argo
12 7 (0.13%) QRadar
12 7 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 669 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 577 (10.41%) SAP
3 520 (9.38%) Oracle
4 138 (2.49%) ServiceNow
5 105 (1.89%) Databricks
6 103 (1.86%) Cisco
7 101 (1.82%) Google
8 99 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 80 (1.44%) VMware
10 79 (1.43%) IBM
11 76 (1.37%) Workday
12 69 (1.24%) Splunk
13 63 (1.14%) Adobe
14 56 (1.01%) HP
15 53 (0.96%) Ariba
16 50 (0.90%) Dell
17 47 (0.85%) Red Hat
18 42 (0.76%) Sybase
19 41 (0.74%) Citrix
19 41 (0.74%) Murex